Streaming service Disney+ releases the the 18th episode of Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian, starring Pedro Pascal. Katee Sackhoff and Katy O’Brian guest star in an episode directed by Lee Isaac Chung (Twisters). 
As they leave Mandalore in Bo-Katan’s ship, Bo-Katan and the Mandalorian are attacked by a squadron of TIE interceptors. Once the Mandalorian uses his jetpack to bail out of the ship and retrieve his starfighter, he’s able to offer backup, but another waves of fighters arrives, bombs Bo-Katan’s sanctuary, leaving the two Mandalorians without a home base. There’s only one place to which they can run: to rejoin the Mandalorian covert.
On Coruscant, former Imperial geneticist Dr. Pershing has become the very model of a reformed Imperial citizen of the New Republic. After an evening of being in the public spotlight as a promising specimen of the amnesty program, he returns to the amnesty housing building, where rehibilitated former Imperials are retrained for life in the Republic. He’s surprised to see a familiar face from Moff Gideon’s ship – Elia Kane, Gideon’s former communications officer – and over time, she drops hints that Pershing could continue his cloning research in private, even if the Republic forbids him from doing so as his full-time occupation. All he has to do is follow her lead and break some rules, with a very real risk of being caught and forced back into rehabilitation. Kane seems to be very comfortable breaking the New Republic’s rules, but Pershing is still arrested. But will he be punished for defying the rules of the New Republic, or those of the Empire?
written by Noah Kloor & Jon Favreau
directed by Lee Isaac Chung
music by Joseph ShirleyCast: Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian), Katee Sackhoff (Bo-Katan Kryze), Omid Abtahi (Dr. Pershing), Katy M. O’Brian (Elia Kane), Emily Swallow (The Armorer), Brendan Wayne (Mandalorian Warrior), Lateef Crowder (Mandalorian Warrior), Valarie Pettiford (Aristocrat 1), Stephen Keearin (Aristocrat 2), Norwood Cheek (Aristocrat 3), Veanne Cox (Aristocrat 4), Dylan Firshein (Taxi Droid), Matthew Bellows (Amnesty Office M40), James Chen (Amnesty Officer G27), Max Fowler (Amnesty Officer M34), Danny Jabobs (Lab Tech), Regina Hermosillo (Parole Droid), John Ott (Technician), Sunkrish Bala (Amnesty Affairs Commissioner), Tait Fletcher (Paz Vizsla), Arden Briar Voyles (Rodian Child performance artist)
LogBook entry by Earl Green